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Anyone not lose weight until after weaning?

mamarazzimamarazzi
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I'm annoyed.  I've been busting ass to eat better and move more.  I've cut out almost all crap.  And yet I'm still hovering around the same number on the scale.

With DS1 the weight didn't really start to come off until after I stopped nursing.  I thought maybe it was a fluke, but now I'm starting to think that maybe my metabolism gets wonky while I breastfeed?  Or I retain water?  I don't know...

Anyone else not able to drop much until after their baby weaned?

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    KapaluaKapalua
    last time I hung onto 10lbs. until he weaned.  I'm going with that excuse this time, too.
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    Purrrfect433Purrrfect433
    me, but I am hypothyroid and I needed my medication adjusted. Could that be it?
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    YodajoYodajo member

    After both pregnancies, I didn't really start to lose weight until after they slowed down nursing and AF started again.  Once I weaned, or was just nursing one or two times a day, I really started dropping the weight. 

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    Chrisy-WyobrideChrisy-Wyobride member
    I can't...I actually weaned early this time because I want to diet.  I am so overweight that I really just couldn't wait another 6mo-1yr to start...I really need to focus on being healthy for my own sanity.
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    stacynikkistacynikki member
    I didn't at all.  I held on to those pesky 5 lbs up until I got pregnant again. 
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    REOMREOM member
    imageYodajo:

    After both pregnancies, I didn't really start to lose weight until after they slowed down nursing and AF started again.  Once I weaned, or was just nursing one or two times a day, I really started dropping the weight. 

    DITTO!

    And  I will add that I lost the weight around the middle. As if my waist stayed thicker until after they weaned and AF started. I think I dropped 10lbs both times overnight

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    BellisimoBellisimo
    Me.  After nursing DS and holding onto that weight, I lost some...not all.  I have to admit though that my exercise habits weren't the greatest at that point in my life.  BF'ing, for me, is just an extended pregnancy full of crazy hormones and unnecessary weight retention! 
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    mamarazzimamarazzi
    imageREOM:
    imageYodajo:

    After both pregnancies, I didn't really start to lose weight until after they slowed down nursing and AF started again.  Once I weaned, or was just nursing one or two times a day, I really started dropping the weight. 

    DITTO!

    And  I will add that I lost the weight around the middle. As if my waist stayed thicker until after they weaned and AF started. I think I dropped 10lbs both times overnight

    You give me hoooooope!  That's where I'm holding onto the weight  -- right in my midsection (and in my thighs -- but I don't think I can blame them on hormones).

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    goodheartedmommygoodheartedmommy member
    I lost about 30 lbs after weaning.
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